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To understand the diveregence of herbivorous insects associated to plants, in terms of speciation, is useful to consider the evolutionary trends of the species, the geography and hystoricity of insect-plant interactions. In this chapter I will point out the major hypothesis in the speciation of herbivorous insects and describe a more integrative view of their speciation process, as an example, I will describe the results that I had obtained in the study of evolution of the weevils of the genus Trichobaris using several approaches, such as geometric morphometric, phylogenetics, and phylogeography. Finally, I conclude describing the trend in the evolution of this weevils.
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I thank the editors of this book, Dr. Juan Núñez-Farfán and Dr. P. L. Valverde Padilla, for invited me to participate in this book and also to the reviewer Dr. Raul Cueva del Castillo for his comments that improved the writing.
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De-la-Mora Curiel, M. (2020). Evolution Among Weevils and Their Host Plants: Interaction Between the Genera Trichobaris Le Conte and Datura L.. In: Núñez-Farfán, J., Valverde, P. (eds) Evolutionary Ecology of Plant-Herbivore Interaction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46012-9_14
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